BOY ON ICE by John Branch

BOYONICE appears in the NYT Paperback Row on Dec. 6, 2015. “A Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist outlines the impact of hockey’s brutality on Boogaard, one of the game’s pre-eminent enforcers. Spanning Boogaard’s Saskatchewan childhood through his professional success and death at 28, the book is particularly “heartbreaking because it shows us, in tender detail, a life consumed by our unholy appetites,” Steve Almond wrote in a review of the book for the New York Times in October. Norton published the paperback edition on Oct. 13, 2015…..